Commentaries By Leo Odera Omolo.
A shameful act and politically motivated propaganda against the Secretary General of the Central Organization of Trade Unions {COTUK} during the Labor Day celebrations of the Uhuru Park by a few misguided elements was an act of shame, unwarranted and uncalled for.
The two hecklers, who have since been dealt with under the law of the land, had the ulterior motive of a shaming Atwoli before His Excellency the President of the Republic of Kenya Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta.
The unfortunate act of shame should now be forgotten and considered as having boomeranged on the perpetrators, because the thousands of Kenyan workers who thronged the venue left with smiling faces after our good President had officially sanctioned for the increment of salaries of the lowest paid workers in this country by 14 per cent.
The former photo-journalist Boniface Mwangi and his accomplice Mr Amwai should consider themselves the luckiest people because the narrowly escaped from being lynched by the angry Kenyan workers.
The good gesture at the end of the function showed that President Kenyatta equally loved the Kenyan workers and therefore was not shaken by Mwangi antics. Whoever sponsored Mwngi to cause commotion and mayhem during such important occasion when Kenyan workers were commemorating May Day / Labor Day, which is celebrated globally, should feel ashamed.
Atwoli is a dedicated servant of the workers of his country. He has come the long way struggling for the Kenyan workers and achieved a lot, and as such he deserved some amount of respect.
Whatever grievances or grudges Mr Mwangi is nursing against the secretary-General of COTU {K}, choice of forum and venue for airing such grievances was totally wrong..
If at all he disagreed with Atwoli for demanding that the MPS salaries should be left at where they were at the end of the 11th parliament.
Moreover Francis Atwoli is aiso acknowledged globally as an accomplished trade unionist of high reputation .He had all the mandate of the Kenyan workers to defend them on any contentious issues, MPs included because even the MP are also the workers in this country and they al falls under the armpit of cotu{k}
I passionately appealed to Mr Atwoli to soldier on with his service dedication to the workers and ignore the by irresponsible political demagogues and goons.
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